Call for proposals
Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces: Between Description and Narration

“We felt enlarge itself round us the huge blackness of what is outside us, of what we are not,” declares Bernard in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931/2000, 213). “What we are not”—the nonhuman—has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking concepts in contempora…[Read more]

Call for Papers: 2017 Special Section of Letras Hispanas on

“Contemporary Iberian Ecocriticism and New Materialisms”

Editor: Luis I. Prádanos, Miami University

Deadline: June 1, 2017

The global proliferation of ecocriticism and environmental humanities is significantly enriching the depth and scope of literary and cultural studies worl…[Read more]

I am developing an online database of the visual culture of the Spanish masterpiece Celestina (1499). At the moment, everything is in Spanish, but a programmer is helping me to develop the English version (we are using Omeka).  I am trying to strike a balance between scholarly thoroughness and accessibility for the average users since ther…[Read more]

I am developing an online database of the visual culture of the Spanish masterpiece Celestina (1499). At the moment, everything is in Spanish, but a programmer is helping me to develop the English version (we are using Omeka).  I am trying to strike a balance between scholarly thoroughness and accessibility for the average users since there are…[Read more]

CFP: Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia

This is a call for an EDITED VOLUME on Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater.

This edited volume will focus on issues of social justice in theatrical works of Golden Age Spain. For example, the 2013 Repertorio Español production of Fuenteovejuna illustrates how relevant social justice…[Read more]

The next scheduled election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017; the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is req…[Read more]

A reminder to scholars of literature and visual arts/comics scholars:

The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In

“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the c…[Read more]

This summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago.  All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply.  The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture
The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging scholars (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty) o…[Read more]

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<div>Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during the International Spenser Society luncheon, to be held at Amada, 217-219 Chestnut St,…[Read more]

Dear Members of the LLC Francophone Forum,

I am honored to have been nominated by the current members of our executive committee to stand for election to the committee this year.

I am an Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where I teach francophone and anglophone literatures of…[Read more]

Dear Fellow LLC Francophone Forum members, I’m running for a seat on our executive committee, so please allow me to tell you a little about my work.

My name is John Walsh, and I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of French & Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. My teaching and research include the literature and history of Haiti and t…[Read more]